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When social media use becomes toxic for friend groups with eating disorders

My closest friends and I all follow each other on social media and we're constantly posting about workouts and food, and I think we're all triggering each other's eating disorder behaviors but none of us wants to be the one to say we need to change how we interact online.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A friend group is perpetuating eating disorder behaviors through social media interactions that feel normal on the surface but create harmful comparison and competition.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Eating disorders — all presentations?”

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